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epub, pdf |eng | 2012-10-09 | Author:Thomas F. Madden
Within a month of signing the Treaty of Turin, the Venetian government awarded thirty commoner families permanent membership in the nobility. In part, this was a recognition of the extraordinary ...
( Category:
Turkey
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-04-29 | Author:Stefan Klein
THE PERFORMANCE OF THE MECHANICAL LION Let us not forget that Leonardo earned his living by conjuring up dreams and illusions. After all, his primary task at the court was ...
( Category:
Italy
March 26,2014 )
epub | | 2005-01-25 | Author:Evans, Richard J. [Evans, Richard J.]
To many readers of the newspapers that reported Hitler’s appointment, the jubilation of the brownshirts must have appeared exaggerated. The key feature of the new government, symbolized by the participation ...
( Category:
European
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Wendy Moore [Moore, Wendy]
NINE ESTHER Wakefield, Yorkshire, 1775 Clever, amiable and wealthy, at twenty-three, Esther Milnes was popular with girlhood friends and male admirers alike. Having lost both her parents within a few ...
( Category:
Women in History
March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:Albert Jay Nock [Albert Jay Nock]
XI MR. E. D. MOREL, editor of the British monthly Foreign Affairs, performed more than a distinguished service—it is a splendid, an illustrious service—to the disparaged cause of justice, when ...
( Category:
Occult
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Darren Oldridge
THE CASE AGAINST WEREWOLVES Some of the best discussions of werewolves in pre-modern literature can be found in works on satanic witchcraft. This reflected the popular belief that witches could ...
( Category:
Folklore & Mythology
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mitchell Zuckoff [Zuckoff, Mitchell]
Chapter 19 “SHOO, SHOO BABY” THEIR STOMACHS EMPTY and growling, Walter and his team awoke early to a breakfast of hot water and hope. His top priority was receiving a ...
( Category:
Aviation
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Laurence Rees [LAURENCE REES]
Above A Japanese officer brandishing a sword (right) leads his soldiers in an attack on the Chinese in November 1941. This bloody, racist war against the Chinese would continue in ...
( Category:
World War II
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-26 | Author:William K. Klingaman & Nicholas P. Klingaman [Klingaman, William K. & Klingaman, Nicholas P.]
8. THE PRICE OF BREAD “There has not been this whole summer one day of steady sunshine, not one day of heat, nor one night when a coverlet and blanket ...
( Category:
Climatology
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Gavin Menzies [Menzies, Gavin]
After establishing the settlements, the junks would have set sail. How desolate the crew and concubines left ashore must have felt, watching the great red sails unfurl and fill with ...
( Category:
Expeditions & Discoveries
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-23 | Author:Switek, Brian
FIGURE 53 - An illustration of Koch’s Hydrarchos as it appeared on display. To Koch’s surprise, the fossils were among the salvage and were sent to New York on the ...
( Category:
Organic
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Pamela D. Toler [D. Toler, Pamela]
The Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople in 1453. Engraving by Matthäus Merian the Elder (1593-1650) On the morning of May 29, three hours before dawn, the Ottomans began an all-out attack ...
( Category:
Ancient Civilizations
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-07 | Author:Mortimer J. Adler
BAD ART IS STILL ART Lloyd Luckman: Well, Dr. Adler, right there— Mortimer Adler: Yes, Lloyd? Lloyd Luckman: You’ve been using this phrase “good art” and “bad art” quite a ...
( Category:
Anthologies
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Peter Watson [Watson, Peter]
Fig. 12 Head of a mythical priest almost fully transformed into a feline state; the strands of mucus running down from the nostrils signal the involvement of hallucinogenic snuff in ...
( Category:
Civilization & Culture
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Piers Brendon
XVI FRANCO’S VICTORY THE governments in London, Paris and Washington saw the defence of Madrid in a very different light, and they were determined not to become embroiled in war ...
( Category:
History & Theory
March 26,2014 )
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